The Rise of Cyber Mercenaries: Inside the Hacking‑for‑Hire Economy Reshaping Cyber Warfare
If you woke up tomorrow to find a confidential board deck leaked online—or your CEO’s email sending “urgent” messages at 2 a.m.—would you assume a random hacker got lucky? Or something more targeted? Increasingly, the answer is neither lone-wolf criminals nor shadowy government spies. It’s cyber mercenaries: private operators who sell hacking-for-hire services to whoever…